Outward Bound

Outward Bound ( v. tight. Outward bound a ready- loaded, ready to sail ship) refers to a short school founded in 1941 by Laurence Holt and the reform educationalist Kurt Hahn in Aberdovey (Wales).

Educational orientation

Outward Bound sees itself as the heir of Kurt Hahn's short school idea. He had built a school for the short -drawn war and postwar turmoil German youth in Salem in 1931. In the short- schools tap shear embossing children should for 4 weeks with and learn from socially completely different layers from each other. Especially by the idea of ​​" service " of physical training, the care ( expeditions and tours) and self- initiative (projects ), he wanted to "cure" society. The social layers overarching learning experiences should contribute to a recovery of the entire nation. The Second World War, a further aspect of this peace education was important: the internationality of the participants. Thus, the "United World Colleges " developed around the world. With them also Outward Bound international distribution found on all continents.

Target

Outward Bound supports individuals and groups in their individual development through experiences in and with nature. This objective will be implemented in Germany at the three Fixstandorten in Schwangau (Allgäu ), Baad (small valley, Austria ) and in numerous mobile locations in Germany and in more than 40 international locations throughout the world. The core values ​​are still the service, the care, the self- initiative and the physical and mental health.

History

The reform educator Kurt Hahn founded in Germany in 1951 the club Outward Bound - German Society for European Education eV

Pioneer of experiential learning were the philosopher Jean -Jacques Rousseau and the living artist Henry David Thoreau. Even the ideas of the American thinker John Dewey and William James and the German sports educators Bernhard Zimmermann Kurt Hahn was affected.

Shortly after the club was founded by the educationalist Kurt Hahn, Minna Specht and Marion Dönhoff 1951 saw the establishment of short- schools in white house on the Baltic Sea in 1952, in Baad 1957 in Berchtesgaden in 1968. 1986 a training for specialists and managers was first held. Two years later saw the establishment of the training center royal castle. The first nationwide meeting at Outward Bound in 1991 contributed to the establishment of the concept of experiential learning in the educational landscape.

In 1993, the largest German additional training began Experiential Education - ZAB and there were in the years to come the education centers Kröchlendorff Castle (1993 ), Schwangau (1995) and the Outward Bound Academy ( 2005) founded.

In 2006, the opening of the site Erzgebirge be celebrated and 2007, they found new partners in Havelberge and Florence.

Since 2009, after the bankruptcy of the association German Society for European Education Association, Outward Bound Outward Bound Germany by the newly formed led eV.

Federal office

Eagle's Nest in Schwangau

The German branch of Outward Bound is since October 2011 at the Conference Centre eyrie in Schwangau Allgäu.

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